What is the Cisco ONE Controller?

In November 2016, Cisco announced its intention to stop selling Cisco ONE Controllers. View current SDN controllers in this list, SDN Controller Comparison.

The Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) is a programmable framework that allows users to customize and hone the value of a more intelligent network and is key component of Cisco software-defined networking (SDN) strategies. The Cisco vision for ONE is being folded into Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) strategy. Cisco ONE was a keystone advance in Cisco’s SDN model, and is made up of three components as part of a multi-faceted approach:

The Cisco ONE Controller was released in 2013, representing a major milestone in Cisco’s execution and delivery of the ONE framework. It’s a software package that acts as an interface between northbound and southbound APIs. It supports the SDN-standard OpenFlow.

Cisco’s ONE Controller Use Flow Chart

Cisco ONE Controller customers can use the hundreds of APIs, in Cisco’s One Platform Kit (onePK), to access the data inside their network. OnePK exposes existing features and capabilities within Cisco’s switches and routers. It can integrate with PyCharm, PyDev, Eclipse, IDLE, NetBeans, among others, and support languages such as Java and Python.

When released, Cisco announced three applications for the Cisco ONE Controller:

Network slicing: most often linked with multi-tenant networks, which allow a single instance of the software to run on a server for multiple distinct customers, the Controller can slice the network to new, separate pathways,

Cisco describes the ONE Controller as unlike other OpenFlow Controllers because it delivers many production-ready capabilities, including troubleshooting features, role-based access control, and topology-independent forwarding.

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